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2019 Acura RDX

Complaints about this year name window far more often than the other years of this generation — 24% of them, about 3× the usual rate of 9.2%.

First year of a new generation. The Acura RDX was redesigned for 2019. A first year carries problems nobody has found yet, and they are found by the people who buy it — which is worth knowing before you become one of them.

NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.

What the complaints were about

• shattered — 40% of this year's complaints, against 1.4% across the other years of this generation (29.6×).
• windshield — 24% of this year's complaints, against 1.5% across the other years of this generation (16.4×). Owners wrote it as: windshield, rear windshield, windshield shattered, spontaneously shattered.
• glass — 30.5% of this year's complaints, against 4.1% across the other years of this generation (7.5×). Owners wrote it as: glass, glass shattered, rear glass, closing.

Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.

Also unusual this year

• rear windshield — 16% of complaints, 4× usual
• insurance — 8% of complaints, 20× usual
• rear window — 14% of complaints, 4× usual

What owners wrote

Rear window spontaneously shattered. The weather was very cold and snowing. I used the rear defroster to melt off the snow. I went inside a retail store for about a hour and when I returned to my suv I found my rear window shattered. There was no damage to the…

Rear window spontaneously shattered on 1/25/23 as the car was parked in a parking lot. Had the rear windshield replaced already. Safety was at risk due to it being able to happen at any point. Glass may fly inwards towards driver/passengers. Currently, there i…

Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.

Recalls for this year

• 20V314000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
• 21V215000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
• 23V158000 SEAT BELTS Fixed free of charge.
• 23V858000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
• 26V332000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.

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How this was worked out

Every year of the Acura RDX was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.

This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.

Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.

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